People like Dean Dillon and Lori McKenna, for example. I am also so inspired and influenced by some of the great writers of sad songs. I’m inspired by rich, conversational intense language and storytelling in all forms- reading books, poems or seeing a play will trigger a line or unleash things for me. I’m a pretty sensitive person so I tend to take on and absorb what’s happening to people around me too, which can end up mostly unedited and true to life in my songs. I don’t always have to be in the middle of it either, sometimes for me a memory ends up being way more devastating and interesting the older it gets. JF: For years I’ve always said I’m a non-fiction writer and so I’m mostly inspired by what’s really happening …or not happening in my life. My mom and I didn’t expect that since I’d never written songs before that first co-write! I remember it felt natural to open up and share pretty intense/emotional ideas even in that very first co-write and that has never changed.ĪS: What inspires you? How do you find ideas for a song? Greg came out of the writing room on our first day and told my mom (who was waiting outside), that I was actually a songwriter. I brought a notebook full of very rough ideas and we wrote five songs in two days. At the time my parents and I didn’t even know what that was! I was set up on my very first co-write at 13 years old with the brilliant Greg Barnhill and Jim Daddario in Nashville. Jamie Floyd: I signed a record deal out of New York at 11 years old and along with that came a publishing deal. American Songwriter: How did you get started in songwriting?
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